Word: fades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Know Why . . ." There are other kinds of danger. Engines can overheat and tear themselves apart before a groggy driver has fully realized the warning of his oil and temperature gauges. Without warning, gearboxes can shatter, axles crumble, fuel lines clog up, brakes freeze or fade out, tires blow. Cunningham & Co. are just as aware of these mechanical hazards as they are of the physical hazards. In the last years, fewer than 40% of the starters have even managed to limp through the grueling 24-hour test, much less finish it with the cars intact...
...Marshal of France was fired. But his supporters had no intention of letting him fade away. Though he had often disavowed any political ambition, it remained to be seen whether Soldier Juin would become a power on the turbulent French political scene...
...explosion went off. Said Masuda: "We saw strange sparkles and flashes of fire, sparks and fire as bright as the sun itself. The sky around them glowed fiery red and yellow. The glow went on for several minutes-perhaps two or three-and then the yellow seemed to fade away. It left a dull red, like a piece of iron cooling in the air. The blast came about five minutes later [with] the sound of many thunders rolled into one. Next we saw a pyramid-shaped cloud rising, and the sky began to cloud over most curiously. The thought...
Crooned Illinois' Republican Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, who parts his metaphors in the middle: "First we have the winter of discontent, then we hathe balmy breezes of spring, the refreshed earth. When the fishing and voting season comes, tantrums, testiness, gripes begin to fade. That's the time to get the show on the road." This was merely Dirksen's way of saying that he hopes Senator McCarthy will quit tossing tantrums at the G.O.P. Administration in time for the party to take advantage of Joe's touted vote-getting skills...
...relaxing their grip and would gradually turn Egypt toward parliamentary rule. The timetable: in June, the election of a 250-man Constituent Assembly; in July, an Assembly meeting to ratify a new constitution; by January 1956, free elections for a new democratic Parliament. The R.C.C. said it will then fade away. As a starter, news censorship was lifted...